Biography

I am currently a professor in School of Computer Science & Technology at Soochow University. I received my PhD degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. Before joining Soochow University in 2013 as an associate professor, I was a research scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. My research interests include machine translation, cross-lingual summarization, parsing. I broadly serve in the program committees of major conferences of ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, COLING, and serve as a member of the committee of machine translation, Chinese Information Processing Society of China.

Selected Publication

Xiangyu Duan, Baijun Ji, Hao Jia, Min Tan, Min Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo, Yue Zhang: Bilingual Dictionary Based Neural Machine Translation without Using Parallel Sentences, ACL 2020.

Baijun Ji, Zhirui Zhang, Xiangyu Duan*, Min Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo: Cross-Lingual Pre-Training Based Transfer for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation. AAAI 2020.

Kai Song, Xiaoqing Zhou, Heng Yu, Zhongqiang Huang, Yue Zhang, Weihua Luo, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang: Towards Better Word Alignment in Transformer. IEEE ACM Transaction Audio Speech Language Processing (TASLP), 2020.

Kai Song, Kun Wang, Heng Yu, Yue Zhang, Zhongqiang Huang, Weihua Luo, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang: Alignment-Enhanced Transformer for Constraining NMT with Pre-Specified Translations. AAAI 2020.

Huaao Zhang, Shigui Qiu, Xiangyu Duan*, Min Zhang: Token Drop mechanism for Neural Machine Translation. Coling 2020 (short paper).

Xiangyu Duan, Mingming Yin, Min Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo: Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Abstractive Sentence Summarization through Teaching Generation and Attention. ACL 2019.

Xiangyu Duan, Hongfei Yu, Mingming Yin, Min Zhang, Weihua Luo, Yue Zhang: Contrastive Attention Mechanism for Abstractive Sentence Summarization. EMNLP 2019.

Hongfei Yu, Xiaoqing Zhou, Xiangyu Duan*, Min Zhang: Layer-Wise De-Training and Re-Training for ConvS2S Machine Translation. ACM Transaction Asian Low Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP). 2019.

Xiaoqing Zhou, Xiangyu Duan*, Hongfei Yu, Min Zhang: Iterative Partial Knowledge Distillation for Neural Machine Translation (In Chinese). CCL 2019.

Kun Wang, Mingming Yin, Hongfei Yu, Dong Han, SILAJIAIHEMAITI·Ruzemaimaiti, XIREAILI·Hairela, Wenqi Liu, AISHAN·Wumaier, Junhui Li, Xiangyu Duan*, Min Zhang: The Study on Low-Resource Uygur-Chinese Neural Machine Translation (In Chinese). CCMT 2019.

Min Tan, Xiangyu Duan*, Min Zhang: Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation Based on Domain Features (In Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing. 2019.

Kang Xiao, Xiabing Zhou, Zhongqing Wang, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang: Question Generation Based Product Information. NLPCC 2019.

Xiangyu Duan, Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, A. Kumaran: Report of NEWS 2016 Machine Transliteration Shared Task. The Sixth Named Entity Workshop, NEWS 2016.

Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang, Yue Zhang, Xiangyu Duan: Exploiting meta features for dependency parsing and part-of-speech tagging. Artificial Intelligence. 2016.

Enting Gao, Xiangyu Duan*: A Comparative Study on English-Chinese Machine Transliteration (In Chinese). Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinesis. 2016.

Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan*, Wenliang Chen: Bayesian Constituent Context Model for Grammar Induction. IEEE ACM Transaction Audio Speech Language Processing (TASLP). 2014.

Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Qiaoming Zhu: Synchronous Constituent Context Model for Inducing Bilingual Synchronous Structures. COLING 2014.

Enting Gao, Xiangyu Duan, Jiayuan Chao, Min Zhang: Translation Rule Pruning and Model Training with Semi-Forced Decoding and Variational Bayesian Inference (In Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing. 2014.

Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen, Xiangyu Duan, Rong Zhang: Improving Graph-Based Dependency Parsing Models With Dependency Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP). 2013.

Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Wenliang Chen: Smoothing for Bracketing Induction. IJCAI 2013.

Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Ming Liu, Yunqing Xia, Haizhou Li: Joint Alignment and Artificial Data Generation: An Empirical Study of Pivot-based Machine Transliteration. IJCNLP 2011.

Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li: Pseudo-Word for Phrase-Based Machine Translation. ACL 2010.

Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li: Machine Transliteration: Leveraging on Third Languages. COLING 2010.

Xiangyu Duan, Rafael E. Banchs, Jun Lang, Deyi Xiong, AiTi Aw, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li: I2r's machine translation system for IWSLT 2010. IWSLT 2010

Xiangyu Duan, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu: Ungreedy Methods for Chinese Deterministic Dependency Parsing. AAAI Student Session, 2007.

Xiangyu Duan, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu: Probabilistic Parsing Action Models for Multi-Lingual Dependency Parsing. EMNLP-CoNLL 2007.

Xiangyu Duan, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu: Word Sense Disambiguation through Sememe Labeling. IJCAI 2007.

Xiangyu Duan, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu: Probabilistic Models for Action-Based Chinese Dependency Parsing. ECML 2007.

Youzheng Wu, Jun Zhao, Xiangyu Duan, Bo Xu: Research on Question Answering & Evaluation: A Survey (In Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing. 2005.

Students

Current Students:

Baijun Ji, Zero-shot Machine Translation

Qiuyi Ning, Domain-adapted Machine Translation

Xiaojing Shi, Domain-adapted Machine Translation

Hao Jia, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual Applications

Xu Wang, Cross-lingual Applications

Shigui Qiu, Cross-lingual Applications

Huaao Zhang, Machine Translation Applications

Shilong Wu, Language Resources

Past Students:

Mingming Yin, cross-lingual summarization, now in Sogou, Hangzhou

Xiaoqing Zhou, model compression for machine translation, now in OPPO, Beijing

Hongfei Yu, machine translation and summarization, now in Meituan, Shanghai

Min Tan, machine translation, now in Huawei, Nanjing

Kun Wang, machine translation systems, now in Sogou, Hangzhou

Qi Wang, convolution on attention heatmap of NMT, now in China Merchants Bank, Shenzhen

Huimin Gong, corpus quality, now in PatSnap, Suzhou

Machine Translation Demo (Accessible for Students from Soochow University)